Though the dark fiction that we love often basks in unlit, unexamined corners, we want the authors of those stories to be seen.
One of our core missions at Nightingale Press & Publishing is to bring overlooked writers out of the shadows. Publishing as an industry has prioritised easily repeatable success over art and creativity. We mean to change that and make room for the unsettling. For the uncomfortable questions most dare not ask. For the stories you better not read in the dark. Because we believe authors deserve more for their hard work and readers deserve stories that move them.
And when we say we don’t want to walk the same beaten paths, we mean that. Not only for the stories we publish, but for the entire process behind the publishing.
Wherever possible, we are opting for open source solutions and smaller software developers with business models that are not built around selling people’s data to the highest bidder. That includes our social media strategy. And while we service some (not all) (not sorry, Zuck) of the bigger platforms as well, our main focus will be on a platform we truly support. If you don’t know it already, let us introduce you to a writing platform developed by an actual writer: Wrizzit.com.
A due disclaimer: Wrizzit is not our platform. We have not developed it, nor do we have personal stakes in its success. But we firmly believe in its writer-first model, which is why both our first flash-fiction contest and our first pitch event are hosted there. Wrizzit allows us to directly engage with writers and host fun challenges via a built-in feature (that everyone can make use of, btw!) rather than a complicated accumulation of explanations and links and confusing comment sections that make both submitting and judging a pain for everyone involved.
Wrizzit is a platform that is growing daily, with a developer who closely works with the users in creating new features and improving the user experience. It is built for readers and writers, and it prioritizes readers and writers. In short, this platform reflects the change we also mean to bring to a machinery that has become too big and too sluggish to adjust to what the people it purportedly serves actually need. For our latest contests and updates, we welcome you to meet us on Wrizzit.com.
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